Golden Age The Dummy (foe of The Vigilante) Appreciation 2021

[MajorHoy]

First appearance = Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941):

Vigilante (Greg Sanders) first fought the Dummy in the first adventure of the Seven Soldiers of Victory (a.k.a. "The Law's Legionnaires").

The Dummy returned several more times to tangle with the Vigilante in his feature in Action Comics starting in issue #58 (cover-dated March 1943).


And from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. VII (September 1985):

[MajorHoy]

More of the Dummy's first appearance
in Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941):

[MajorHoy]

. . . The Dummy returned several more times to tangle with the Vigilante in his feature in Action Comics starting in issue #58 (cover-dated March 1943).

A few more pages from that story:

To be continued . . .

[DrNewGod]

A great, and innovative villain. Personally, I think Wagner, Grant and Breyfogle did the notion best...

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...but it was a really cool idea, and I love that it originated outside DC's Epic 7.

[MajorHoy]

A great, and innovative villain. Personally, I think Wagner, Grant and Breyfogle did the notion best...

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...but it was a really cool idea, and I love that it originated outside DC's Epic 7.

But that's "Scarface", not "The Dummy".
And Scarface is a carved "dummy", not a flesh-and-blood person.

[DrNewGod]

But that's "Scarface", not "The Dummy".
And Scarface is a carved "dummy", not a flesh-and-blood person.

I get it. I was speaking of the whole "artiface as a menace" thing, regardless of whether as a mystically animated object or as a maniacs proxy/prop. The fact that I prefer the latter in no way diminishes the importance of the previous, or my enjoyment of The Dummy.

[MajorHoy]

To be continued . . .

And here are three more pages from that story:

[scary harpy]

Thank you, MajorHoy.

Good villains need appreciation too.